CU Wiki began in 2011-2012 with an adhoc committee that met in Champaign or Urbana public library every month to talk about how to do it. The idea was to complement what is available online about the local area -- and link to that content -- using a "website about the Champaign-Urbana area that anyone can edit," as the tagline says. And the idea is to grow, collect, link to all kinds of local content, since C-U is getting 1 gig internet speeds over the next few years via UC2B.